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3 Steps to Filling Your Pipeline with Eager Clients and Customers

If your primary source of business revenue is selling services, there is no worse feeling than having an empty pipeline (especially when you're completing projects with your current clients).

So how do you keep a full pipeline with eager clients and customers? Let me share 3 steps to get you started:

Step 1 -- Know who your ideal client is. If you don't know who you're trying to put into your pipeline, it's going to be pretty hard to get them in there.

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Michele PW, our official Advertising/Marketing Online Expert

How To Build Your E-mail Marketing Lists

If you've spent any time studying online marketing, chances are pretty good that you've come across a version of this phrase:

"The Profit Is In The List".

I wholeheartedly believe this. So do many prominent online marketers.

Want to know the secret behind Robert Allen's "Make $24,000 in 24 Hours" program? It's the list! He sends an offer to his lists and the money starts coming in.

Read Brian's entire article How To Build Your E-mail Marketing Lists

Brian Rooney, our official Autoresponders Expert

12 Tips for the Social Media Newbie

Many small business owners are silently watching social media marketing from the sidelines. They're intrigued, interested and attracted by this new marketing channel, but don't feel quite ready to join in on the game. But, no worries.

Here are twelve simple tips to help get your social media marketing in top form.

1. It's not too late. Many small business owners think they've missed the boat when it comes to jumping on the social media bandwagon. But, nothing could be further from the truth. Social media is in its infancy and still considered a newborn in the marketing world.

Read Jessica's entire article 12 Tips for the Social Media Newbie

Jessica Swanson, our official Shoestring Marketing Expert

Need a Great Idea? Feed Your Brain

A lot of great ideas happen when two or more other ideas collide to form something completely new.

Think of this like those old chemistry movies we used to watch in school. You had all of those atoms floating around and when two collided -- bam! A chemical reaction. Maybe something new was created. Maybe something exploded. Or maybe it all fizzled out and nothing happened.

Well, a similar reaction is going on inside your brain or muse. Except instead of atoms floating around they're pieces of information or other ideas.

Read Michele's entire article Need a Great Idea? Feed Your Brain

Michele PW, our official Advertising/Marketing Online Expert

How You Can Generate Over 200 Leads Every Month!

Leads are the life blood of any business. It doesn't matter if you conduct business online or offline, high-tech or low-tech. If you want to stay in business, you have to make sales. And if you want to make sales, you need to be generating a steady flow of leads.

This article is going to show you EXACTLY how I generate an average of more than 200 leads each and every month.

The first step, of course, is to set up your AutoResponder. Your AutoResponder is the backbone to any lead generation and email marketing campaign.

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Brian Rooney, our official Autoresponders Expert

12 Simple Ways to Generate More Blog Traffic

Imagine that you've taken the giant leap to start a blog to bring more brand awareness and exposure to your small business.

You've taken all the necessary steps to build your blog platform and now comes the day when you make your very first blog post. You spend hours crafting a post that is educational, inspirational and positions you as an expert in your field. You are as proud of this post as if it truly were your own flesh and blood. And, most of all you can't wait to share it with the world.

So, you hit "publish" and wait for your readers to react to your nuggets of wisdom. However, the waiting is an endless ordeal.

Read Jessica's entire article 12 Simple Ways to Generate More Blog Traffic

Jessica Swanson, our official Shoestring Marketing Expert

Advertising on a Budget -- Part 3: Frequency, Frequency, Frequency

If you don't remember anything else about marketing, remember this: frequency is king.

The more often you can get your name in front of your potential and current customers, the more likely you will make a sale.

Depending on what study you look at, people need to see your message anywhere from three to 27 times before they act upon it.

And, if you want to brand your business, then you need to get it in front of your customers as often as possible.

Read Michele's entire article Advertising on a Budget -- Part 3: Frequency, Frequency, Frequency

Michele PW, our official Advertising/Marketing Online Expert